Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give the Board a headstart on the wheat problem, the Department of Agriculture last week began a nationwide movement to get wheat-growers to increase their own storage facilities on the farm. Purpose: if each wheat man stored a part of his own crop, the autumn market peak would be diminished, prices would be steadied, car shortages and terminal embargoes would be avoided...
...newsgatherer had the temerity to ask grief-stricken Amanullah if it were true that Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence, British secret agent, had a part in stirring up the revolution...
...ascertainable facts might have seemed thin in any place but Central Europe. But that part of the world is as full of spies as of flies. Only last fortnight Prague's Národni Politika, commenting absently on the spy situation, observed with interest that Russian spies seemed to be unusually numerous this year...
...forget that they can only imitate a human being and not recreate one. . . . However, the radio, the phonograph and the talking picture are almost uncanny in their reproductions. ... I believe [sound pictures] will raise the standard of both. The concert and the opera have always attracted the more discriminating part of the entertainment seeking public and such people will probably become even more discriminating...
...original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan and Isidor Straus, sons of Lazarus Straus, and in 1902 Macy's moved to its present Herald Square location...